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In postmenopausal women, high testosterone levels increase the risk for insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and coronary heart disease, a new study shows. 

Combining artificial sweeteners with the real thing boosts the stomach’s secretion of a hormone that makes people feel full and helps control blood sugar, new research shows.

Federal scientists say AstraZeneca’s cholesterol pill Crestor lowers the risk of heart attack, death and stroke in patients without a history of heart disease, though some safety concerns remain.

Icelandic biologists have discovered that the genetic risk of several common diseases, like Type 2 diabetes and cancer, can depend on which parent a DNA variant is inherited from….

Those who ate two meals per week of fried chicken were at 68 percent increased risk of Type 2 diabetes, compared to those who ate none.

Nine weeks of education about the glycemic index in foods is enough to encourage adults with Type 2 diabetes to adopt better dietary habits that result in improvements to their health, recent research suggests.

The chance discovery of a genetic mutation that makes mice enormously fat but protects them from diabetes has given researchers at Boston University School of Medicine, MA, new insights into the cellular mechanisms that link obesity to Type 2 diabetes.

Treatment of depression in low-income minorities with poorly controlled diabetes improves HbA1c and systolic blood pressure, investigators report.

Saxagliptin added to a thiazolidinedione improved glycemic control in Type 2 diabetes patients, in a phase III trial.

According to a head-to-head Phase III trial with Lantus (insulin glargine), taspoglutide is found to be equally effective.